What to do with hamburger buns?

We had a bbq last night and amazingly enough, we ended up with more food leftover than when we started.  It was totally loaves and fishes :)  We have such great friends!  This morning when I was figuring out breakfast, I realized that I should probably use some of the myriad of hamburger buns sitting on my counter, but I was tired of making the same old breakfast regulars.  Here's a twist on French toast and peanut butter and jelly that was a huge hit!  We ate them as a finger food.  They are great for kids and husbands with very little clean up!

PB Jammerwiches
Ingredients:
4 to 6 Hamburger Buns
2 Eggs
1/4 Cup Milk
1 Tsp Cinnamon Sugar
Peanut Butter
Jelly or Jam
Powdered Sugar

1.  In a shallow bowl, mix together milk, cinnamon sugar, and eggs.
2. Spray your griddle with non-stick spray and heat it up. 
3. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter and jellly on the "wrong" sides of the bun.  Put together like a sandwich and smash flat.  Dip both sides of sandwich in egg mixture.  Place on griddle and cook until both sides are golden brown.  Sprinkle powdered sugar on top.  Makes 4 to 6 PB Jammerwiches.

What to do with chocolate bunnies and peeps?

With Summer right around the corner, I decided it was probably time to get rid of the rest of our Easter candy.  After the kids get their baskets, I tend to hide a whole bunch of their candy for later and then we forget about it.  In our pantry, we had numerous boxes of peeps and chocolate bunnies they either had forgotten about or I had gotten rediculously cheap after Easter.  Andy's Granny makes an awesome crockpot fudge that I thought I could recreate with peeps and bunnies.  When you're making this candy, make sure you stir FREQUENTLY.  I only say this in caps because the first time I tried this recipe, I did not.  On Saturday I put all the ingredients into my crockpot and Celia and I went grocery shopping.  2 hours later, we came home to some very burnt candy.  We had to rush out to an engagement party, so I didn't get it thrown away until later.  Andy cleaned up the crockpot, but when we washed it in the dishwasher, there must've still been some burnt chocolate on it.  It proceeded to clog up our dishwasher.  I learned so many lessons in a short amout of time.  Needless to say, the 2nd time making this, I was much more cautious and they turned out delicious!

CrockPot Candy
Ingredients:
2 Cups Peanuts
1 Cup Chopped Pecans
1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
4 Trays of Peeps
2 Chocolate Bunnies (1 of mine was a white chocolate one, so any kind will work)
1 Bag Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

1. Spray a slowcooker with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Pour peanuts, pecans, and chocolate chips into slowcooker.
3. Cut up peeps and chocolate bunnies.  Add these and peanut butter to slowcooker.

4. Cook on low for 45 to 60 minutes on low, STIRRING FREQUENTLY!
5. When chocolate and peeps are all melted together, turn off slowcooker.  Form chocolate into small balls or chunks and lay out on waxed paper.  Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.  Makes 35 to 45 pieces of candy.

What to do with instant oatmeal?

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What's cooking What's for Leftovers readers?  This has been a great spring break week, but since we've been so busy, I haven't actually been doing a lot of cooking.  The other day I did make peanut butter cookies for our Community Group.  We did not bring a single one home, so I think everybody liked them.  For breakfast that morning, I had fed Celia and Charlie instant oatmeal.  This was my first time preparing it, but it is like a gold mine.  It is so easy to make and they loved it!  Well, I made Celia's great, but I think I got distracted with Charlie's and did something wrong (I know you're asking yourself, who messes up instant oatmeal!?).  To thicken it up, I had to open another packet.  Instead of making a huge amount of instant oatmeal, I saved the rest of it and added it to the peanut butter cookies.  According to Belinda, it made the cookies look healthy :)

Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients:
1 Cup Peanut Butter
2 Eggs
3/4 Cup Pecan Meal (Finely chop pecans in your food processor if you don't have pecan meal)
3/4 Cup Honey
2 TBSP Instant Oatmeal (You can add a whole packet if you don't have one open already)
1 TBSP Baking Powder
1/4 Cup Flour
M&M's (Optional)
Powdered Sugar (Optional)

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
2.  In a large mixing bowl, mix together peanut butter, eggs, pecan meal, honey, instant oatmeal, baking powder and flour until dough forms into a large lump.
3. Place dough in freezer for fifteen minutes.
4. Spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray.  Take cookie dough out and roll into small balls.  Place several M&Ms on top of balls (optional).  Put remaining dough back in freezer.
5.  Bake in oven for 11 to 13 minutes.  Cookies are finished when they puff up and start to turn light brown.  Take out of oven, sprinkle with powder sugar (optional) and let cool.  Repeat until dough is finished.

**Makes 2 and 1/2 dozen cookies** 

What to do with a little bit of icing?

We went over to our friends' house for dinner last night and I made a chocolate cake for dessert.  Thanks to the modern convenience of cake mix boxes and icing tubs, it turned out great!  However, I had just a little bit of creamy, chocolaty icing leftover.  I definitely thought about just getting a spoon and eating it, but in the end, I made it into something new.  These are very easy to make and a great chocolate fix.  You might want to make them and hide them for yourself.

Chocolate Graham Cracker Balls
Ingredients:
4 Whole Cinnamon Graham Crackers
3 TBSP Chocolate Icing
2 1/2 TBSP Peanut Butter
1 Tsp Powdered Sugar
1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Powdered Sugar

1. Smash graham crackers into small bits.  You don't want to grind them to a powder so your balls have some crunch, but you don't want them too big so they won't hinder you when you're rolling your balls.
2. Mix in 2 of the TBSP of chocolate icing, 2 1/2 TBSP of peanut butter and 1 Tsp of Powdered Sugar.
3.  Fill a small pot with water.  Place on the stove and place a bowl on top of it.  (or if you have one, use a double-boiler).  Heat your water and pour your chocolate chops into the bowl.  Mix in 1 TBSP of chocolate icing with them.  Heat water until your chocolate becomes a large, soft ball.  Make sure you stir constantly so your chocolate won't burn.
4. After chocolate melts, pour into graham cracker mixture.  Mix until smooth.  Roll chocolate mixture into small balls.  Roll these balls into powdered sugar.  This recipe will make 12 to 15 balls.  Place in refrigerator until ready to eat.